Bricked Google Pixel bramble 4a5g

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I attempted an update on a pixel 4a5g and ran into issues. Thing is I have done many and never run into issues before. I was rushing and set a machine up at work (normal PC at home) Then environment is Windows 10.

I think I know my mistake. The phone was at eOS 1.7s and I was going direct to eOS 2.7u. What I think I did wrong was I flash (according to instruction on bramble page). I flashed;
fastboot flash dtbo .img
fastboot flash boot .img
and the recovery .img

All were the correct image for 2.7u. I don’t think in this situation I need or should have flashed,

fastboot flash dtbo .img
fastboot flash boot .img

in this situation. Short of it is the device is bricked I can’t get to recovery or rescue and the google tool connects but can’t find the device. Any ideas on how to recover?

Edit: the commands I used are;

fastboot flash dtbo .img
fastboot flash boot .img
fastboot flash vendor_boot recoveryfilename.img
per the webpage for eOS bramble. I could not get the recovery.img to load until I canged the command to: fastboot flash boot vendor_boot recoveryfilename.img

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So you lost recovery and system, but we cannot say it is bricked if you still have fastboot.

Can you use button presses to reach Fastboot mode and get an answer from

fastboot devices

Was this your actual command ? That would be wrong as the target partition dtbo is missing. This set of commands should all look like

fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img

Worst case if you still have fastboot you can find a Google fastboot ROM from here

With any luck, if you still have fastboot, you can just start /e/OS instructions from the top again.

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The correct commands are:

fastboot flash boot boot-e-2.7-u-20250110460550-community-bramble.img
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo-e-2.7-u-20250110460550-community-bramble.img
fastboot flash vendor_boot recovery-e-2.7-u-20250110460550-community-bramble.img
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So the instruction on this page is incorrect then? Step 3.

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/bramble/install

Edit never mind the comment above.

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So at work I googled the recovery tool and got this hit, I didn’t think it looked correct and it does not work, this page:

https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/ Not sure what this page is but I did us a lookup and it appear to belong to google?

I used this tool and the phone is now recovered (at android 14)

https://flash.android.com/welcome

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boot.img = boot-e-2.7-u-20250110460550-community-bramble.img
dtbo.img = dtbo-e-2.7-u-20250110460550-community-bramble.img
vendor_boot.img = recovery-e-2.7-u-20250110460550-community-bramble.img

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